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The NIH Keeps Up With The Times: 1, 2,
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David Baltimore Has A Flashback: ***. The NY Times Keeps Up With Times: ***.
The Faith of Anthony Fauci: ***. Anthony Fauci Explains How HIV Causes AIDS: ***.
Robert Gallo on The Force of Ejaculation: ***, on HIV Theory: ***, Lectures in Marseilles: ***.
David Ho Does The Math: ***.
John Mellors Sets the Record Straight: ***.
Bono, el Magnifico, Holds (Another) Press Conference: ***.
Anthony Fauci Explains Journalism in the Age of AIDS: ***.
Anthony Fauci and David Ho Disprove an Old Adage: ***.
Anthony Fauci Explains ICL and AIDS: ***
The CDC Can't Keep Up With The Times:***
The Method of the "Small Inquisitor" Moore:***
The Co-Discovery of a Nobel-Worthy Enzymatic Activity:***
The Revenge of the "Very" Minor Moriarty:***
Julie Gerberding and Anthony Fauci Learn Arithmetic:***
Osama Obama Has a Message for Africa:***

But which is it? LAV, HTLV-III, or HIV? why all the name changes?
Why the quotation marks? Why the bad attitude toward our esteemed Dr.
Luc?

Perhaps some of you will be kind enough to come along and help tell
the story of Dr. Montagnier, and his amazing "discovery" – stimulated
cell-cultures, swollen lymph nodes, window-dressers, and all.

In the meantime, a few quotes to get you started. See if they make you
scratch your head even in the slightest, as you try to stick to the
orthodox definition, of "Sida." (That's French, you know, just like Dr. M.).

Interviewer: Why no purification?

Montagnier: "We saw some particles but they did not
have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses … They were very
different. Relatively different. So with the culture it took many hours
to find the first pictures. It was a Roman effort! It's easy to
criticise after the event. What we did not have, and I have always
recognised it, was that it was truly the cause of AIDS."

Complex stuff! So, what is purification? What is
LAV? And what did it do? What was HTLV-III, and where did it come from?
What were the proteins from the HTLV-III experiments used to make and manufacture?

But, after all, what does it matter. Sweden has spoken – Montagnier
says he didn't need to purify [isolate a virus], and he won the Nobel
Prize! (Not Bob Gallo ).

Montagnier: "I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV."

But, what's a co-factor? Is this a cofactor? Do co-factors cause Sida?

And of course, we must immediately stop telling people that being "LAV" positive (LAV is what Lucky Luc called his discovery – a "swollen-lymph-node-associated virus") is a death sentence. According to the expert:

Montagnier: "Psychological factors are critical in
supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support
by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have
condemned him." [4]

Montagnier: "AIDS does not inevitably lead to
death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the
disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected."
[5][6][7]

So, onward and upward. We've got psychological factors to un-suppress, and co-factors to treat! Sida will be conquered! (Even though it's no longer (and never was) a heterosexual problem…unless you're African. So say the experts! So say we all!)

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Nooooooooooo! It's mine I tells ya! I slaved over that package and didn't even use a paper knife or anything!
The Nobble committee sits there on its loathesome, spotty behind, squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for a struggling virologist. They're excr%ment with their Tony Jacklin golf clubs and their bleedin' Masonic handshakes. Well I wouldn't be a Nobble prize recipient if you got down on your lousy stinking knees and begged me!

"Retroviruses belonging to the HTLV family and collectively designated HTLV-III were isolated from a total of 48 subjects including 18 of 21 patients with pre-AIDS, three of four clinically normal mothers of juveniles with AIDS, 26 of 72 adult and juvenile patients with AIDS, and from one of 22 normal male homosexual subjects"

¿where is the hiv of the 3 people WITH pre-AIDS BUT THEY GET AIDS?

¿WHERE is the hiv of the 46 people with AIDS but they got aids?....
¿where?.............